The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-12-23
OREGON NEWS.


A saiIor named Peter Carson VA,
drowned 1t Empire City.
The post lice at Herman, Dougia,
county, Org u, has been disconfiDutd
A chair fas tory will soon hegin 0p
eraiions at salem, employing from
thirty 10 Fifty men.
The life-saying inspectors RECON-
mend that a Iife-saping station BE-
established at Newport.
Subscriptions aggr~gating oyel
800 900 have bren raised in Portland
10 complete the Willard Hotel.
The order Of November Is, 1857
disseminating the postofIice et Mosalla
Clackamas county, bias been re4ciadfd
The warehouse of J. " Mcintosh 4
90, nc Waldo Hills station on The
narrow gauge. blew over during high
wind. The warehouse contained no..
600 bushels OF oats, all sacked.
Lawrence Wilhelm committed aui
eide at his home, ON the scholl's ferry
road, near Portland, by shooting him.
self in the temple. He had heen III
for about q year and ! half and was
out u HE mind.
Captain Young, OF the engineers II
Portland. reports shat lox boom ri
Coquille City Oregon. infeffares mitia
the passage of the steamers that carry
the United q afes mails, and thgf me
navigation Of the Coquille river il i'm
peded by settlers telling trees In the
stream.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miner. the female
smuFgler. appeared before the bar OF
the United States District Court at
Portland to answer TO q charge of
smuggling opium. She plead guilty
to the charge. Judge Deadly then
fined her $50 and further directed
that she be confined ia the Multno-
mah County Jail for one day.
AS result OF the investigations or
the swamp land agents. 10000 acres
of land. at = rough estimate. viii be
lost 10 the State, bl4 titles 10 the lands
viii be established. and di~pufes which
hrve srisen over swamp land matters
since 1860. will be largely settled. II
IL expected that patents for lands de
sIarrd swamp win be issued iry tire
government d, the State Immediately
after the submission aud examination
OF these reports.
As w. Fl. Hembree OF East Port
land was going 10 Lafayette, he mel
two men on the rosd near Brzleg's
farm, who caught his horse and made
him dismount while the other held n
revolver at his head and went through
him. L. wss very dark and impos=ihls
% see who the parties were. Mr.
Hembree had money hid in his boots
snd whsn he jumped TO The ground
the money ratified, which attrsct d the
attention Of the robbers, who made
him take of bis boots and give them
the coin. which amounted ~ $3.50
Tney refused to take his watch end
allowed him 20 go.
The steamer Yaqnina City, which
went ashore cn the sands near ths.
entrance to Yaquina Bay. aad is nou
total wreck, was owned by the Orr
gon Developments Company, and had
been on the Pacific Coast only a ien
years. She was built by John Roach
& Sons at Chester r. Pa, in 1877. and
was christened the Western Tex@s
heing intended for Galveston packet
She WAS an iron ship. 23l feet long, "a
feet beam. ard l6 feea depth of hold
Her tonnage was 1s21098 gross and
941l net. Her draught was 12G
feet. She had on bat sixty tons Of
freight, and 800 tons OF rock ballast
when she went ashore. Her lo~s will
be quite severely ftlt by her owners
The Yaquins came 70 the Pacific
Cosst in the summer Of 1884, and ha~
made about one hundred voyages be
tween Yaqnina and San Francisco,
without any serious accident ever hap
pening heretofore. The vessel j. val
ued at about 100000. II il under
stood that the insurance was 800 600